Africa

Millions of people across Africa have no access to adequate housing, no security of tenure and are at risk of forced eviction. 

Mass forced evictions have taken place across the continent, in countries including Angola, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Ghana, and Nigeria.    

Forced evictions are often accompanied by police brutality and lead not only to loss of possessions, but loss of livelihoods – driving people deeper into poverty. 

Communities are hardly ever consulted. People are often not given advance notice of evictions, which would give them some chance to save their meagre possessions, and they are not granted compensation or adequate alternative housing.

Millions live in informal settlements across the continent, usually in precarious living conditions with no access to basic services such as water, sanitation, health and education.